Government Technology May 2005

Proving Its Mettle

By Shane Peterson

Open source software has come a long way, baby.

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Feature

Magnifying Data: By Jim McKay, Justice and Public Safety Editor, Justice and Public Safety Editor
Predictive analytics begins to prove its worth in government.

Closing in on Fraud: By Jim McKay, Justice and Public Safety Editor, Justice and Public Safety Editor
Pattern-detecting software analyzes data faster than before, helping government catch crooks of all kinds.

Justice

Picking up the Pieces: By Jim McKay, Justice and Public Safety Editor, Justice and Public Safety Editor
Identity theft victims in Ohio now have help putting their lives back together.

Ready for Bio-Terror?: By Susan Kim, Contributing Writer
Hospitals work together to create bio-terrorism task force.

Procurement

Home Cooking: By Julie Ritzer Ross, Contributing Writer
Outsourcing agency mines rural IT talent to provide homegrown technology outsourcing.

Wireless

Wi-Fi by the Fire: By Eliot Cole, Contributing Writer
States test the market for Wi-Fi Internet access in public campgrounds.

Geo Info

Taming the Tamarisk: By Blake Harris, Contributing Editor
A new GIS weapon helps a county fight a dangerous shrub.

Electronic Government

Reaching Out: By Justine Brown, Contributing Writer
The All Alert system will replace the old method of distributing emergency warnings to the public.

Spectrum

GT Spectrum: By Shane Peterson, Associate Editor
Reports from the IT horizon.

Tech Focus

Two Cents: Limited Access: By Jessica Jones, Managing Editor
This hard drive has my fingerprints all over it.

Product News

Product News: By Miriam Jones, Chief Copy Editor
Fossil, PC Laptops, Xerox, EFI, IrisGuard

CIO Profile

Jeff Baldo: By Jim McKay, Justice and Public Safety Editor, Justice and Public Safety Editor
CIO, California Youth and Adult Correctional Agency

Point of View

Change of Pace: By Shane Peterson, Associate Editor
Open source forces new status quo.

signal-noise

Choking on Information Exhaust: By Paul W. Taylor, Contributing Writer
Confounded by government's relationship with data aggregators.